By Epoch Times ——Bio and Archives--February 23, 2024
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For some observers, Canada’s and other Western countries’ steps toward net-zero emissions by 2050 and the impacts on their economies and way of life have one main beneficiary—the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—which its leader Xi Jinping has said is aiming for dominance in “national strength and international influence” within the same timeline, 2049.
“I
think there’s a remarkable coincidence between China having its eyes on
2049, the 100-year anniversary of the CCP takeover, as the date at
which they want to solidify their position as the sole global
superpower, and the rest of the world having embraced this notion of
net-zero by 2050,” Ross McKitrick, an economics professor at the
University of Guelph, told The Epoch Times. ---More...
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